Recovering resources, creating opportunities. Integrating the informal sector into solid waste management.

2011, Eschborn, Ellen Gunsilius, Sandra Spies et alt, GIZ – Partnership for Recycling Management, BMZ

Excerpt  relevant to  the Theory of Change on Inclusiveness within the Public Utility of Solid Waste Sanitation pg 31

<<4. Integrating the informal sector: approaches, examples, impacts:

(…) Colombia has also been an inspiration in the region. The organising process in this country goes back as far as 1962
when the first co-operative was created in Medellín (Fernandez, 2009). The 1990s saw the creation of the ARB (the association of recyclers of Bogota) and the ANR (national association of recyclers). 2009 saw a major breakthrough with waste pickers winning a legal battle guaranteeing rights to recyclables for the waste pickers of Cali 2.

A more recent development has taken place in Peru with the sanctioning by the Peruvian President, in June 2010, of
Law 29.419, (…)>>

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2. See CIVISOL note on this case on www.civisol.org

 

Source : https://www.giz.de/en/downloads/giz2011-en-recycling-partnerships-informal-sector-final-report.pdf